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XPod - A Human Activity and Emotion Aware Mobile Music Player

Overview This paper considers the notion of collecting human emotion and activity information from the user, and explores how this information could be used to improve the user experience with mobile music players. Although the device chosen is a mobile MP3 player, the results could also have significant implications in the mobile phone arena. In particular, this paper proposes a mobile MP3 player, XPod, which is able to automate the process of selecting the song best suited to the emotion and the current activity of the user.

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Publisher	University of Maryland	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2005	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
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